Now that the United States was directly
involved in both the Pacific and European wars, it was incumbent upon both
Great Britain and America to create and project a unified front. Toward that
end, Churchill and Roosevelt created a combined general staff to coordinate
military strategy against both Germany and Japan and to draft a future joint
invasion of the Continent. Roosevelt also agreed to a radical increase in the
U.S. arms production program: the 12,750 operational aircraft to be ready for
service by the end of 1943 became 45,000; the proposed 15,450 tanks also became
45,000; and the number of machine guns to be manufactured almost doubled, to
500,000.

Among the momentous results of
these U.S.-Anglo meetings was a declaration issued by Churchill and Roosevelt
that enjoined 26 signatory nations to use all resources at their disposal to
defeat the Axis powers and not sue for a separate peace. This confederation
called itself the "United Nations."

Lead by the United States,
Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, all 26 nations declared a unified goal to
"ensure life, liberty, independence and religious freedom, and to preserve
the rights of man and justice." The blueprint for the destruction of
fascism and a future international peacekeeping organization was born.